Solgryn

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    9:25 AM, Friday August 6th 2021

    So I had to take a much longer break from Drawabox than I anticipated (I had to move, among other things). On the bright side, I managed to get a much better roomier desk that really allows me to move my arm around a lot more. I did keep up with doing some exercises from Lesson 1 during this time, so my mark making hasn't completely deteriorated, but I'm very much open to re-doing Lesson 1 and the 250 Box Challenge.

    These are the 30 boxes, started a few days ago and finished yesterday. I made sure not to make my line sets purposefully parallel, although a few turned out that way from mark making error.

    https://imgur.com/a/LH0GkI8

    I also checked out the video you linked. I believe your method of doing the interior lines after the initial Y-mark helped immensely, but I wanted to ask if it is acceptable to ghost the edges to the general area where the vanishing point of a line set would be when placing dots to align the interior lines (the areas I was ghosting to are visible on some of my pages since I accidentally skimmed the paper with my pen a few times). I was doing this to get a better idea of how to position my interior lines, but I'm not sure if this is something that is harmful for my improvement.

    8:31 AM, Tuesday June 29th 2021

    Ok, thank you!

    9:45 PM, Tuesday January 5th 2021

    Here are my two revisions. I tried to focus on my confidence as asked.

    https://imgur.com/a/woNZQPT

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